Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is a 2013 American action drama film based on the 2007 nonfiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Set during the war in Afghanistan, it dramatizes the unsuccessful United States Navy SEALs counter-insurgent mission Operation Red Wings, during which a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team was given the task of tracking down the Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. The film was written and directed by Peter Berg, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana.
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| Running time | 121 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $40 million
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| Box office | $154.8 million
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- Actual military veterans were used in the film to fulfill extra and acting roles.
- Marcus Luttrell said in an interview that he never killed anybody with a knife as depicted in the film, during the struggle.
- Though it is not mentioned in the movie Luttrell was personally awarded the Navy Cross by (then) President George W. Bush. Lieutenant Michael Murphy would be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.
- Gregory "Rocky" Rockwood was one of the crewmembers awarded the 2004 Mackay Trophy for the "most meritorious flight of the year" by an Air Force person, persons, or organization. Jolly 11 and Jolly 12 crewmembers distinguished themselves by gallantry in connection with rescue operations near Kharbut, Iraq, on 16 April 2004. While supporting of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Jolly 11 Flight launched to rescue a five person crew of a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook that crashed in a sandstorm with near zero-visibility. En route to the crash scene, crews realized their forward looking infra-red and night vision goggles were ineffective. Despite this handicap the crew of Jolly 11 was able to locate the survivors. Both aircraft then made near zero-visibility approaches relying nearly exclusively on the flight engineers and aerial gunners inputs for precision navigation. Following the successful survivor contacts and recovery by the Flight's Pararescuemen, Jolly 11 and Jolly 12 were individually engaged by separate multiple surface-to-air missiles attacks. Using evasive maneuvers Jolly 11 evaded two missiles. Both Jolly 11 and Jolly 12 continued to provide support with defensive fire until the formation was clear of the threat area saving the lives of five U.S. Army personnel.
- Despite what the film shows, with Marcus walking around with a limp leg, in real life Luttrell was paralyzed from the chest down during the battle and was crawling across the ground, drawing a line above him with a knife then crawling across that line and drawing another, for over nine hours.
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